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Photograph Quotes by Eliot Porter
- The more you photograph, the more you realize what can and what can't be photographed. You just have to keep doing it.
- You learn to see by practice. It's Just like playing tennis, you get better the more you play. The more you look around at things,…
- Every photograph that is made whether by one who considers himself a professional, or by the tourist who points his snapshot camera and pushes a…
- Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what is…
- I do not photograph for ulterior purposes. I photograph for the thing itself - for the photograph - without consideration of how it may be…
- But before all else a work of art is the creation of love. Love for the subject first and for the medium second. Love is…
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- You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens. — David Bailey
- Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character… — David Bailey
- I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to… — David Bailey
- You don't take a photograph, you make it. — Ansel Adams
- When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. — Ansel Adams
- A good photograph is knowing where to stand. — Ansel Adams
- There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. — Ansel Adams
- A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. — Ansel Adams
- A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. — Ansel Adams
- Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop. — Ansel Adams